Shrimplets on the way!

[JennyPenny]

I have had my shrimp in my tank for about 6 months now, and I have had three females get berried but drop all their eggs. I now have a fourth berried female with a huge clutch, and she seems to be holding them all! It looks like she has between 21-24 eggs. I'm feeling very optimistic about these babies!
It's hard to get a good picture, but she's a little to the left of the middle in this picture.

[hardware_failure]

Congrats! Having your first larva is very exciting. When they are first released as "floaters" they are impossible to miss. Once/if this happens try not to do any changes - no feeding, topping off etc. After about 2 weeks they will be come benthic (walk around on the ground) like the adults and at that point you can do maintenance if needed.

[JennyPenny]

Thanks for the tip! I just came back from a week vacation to find one larvae and five more clinging to their mom. Very exciting! The larvae are adorable.
I topped off the tank right before I left so they should be good for awhile.

[Mustafa]

How's that larva doing? Should be a shrimp by now. Any more on the way?

[JennyPenny]

How's that larva doing? Should be a shrimp by now. Any more on the way?

The first successful mama released 5 larvae that are now shrimplets!!
I just had my second mama release a whopping 29 larvae, all from the same mama! There might be 30, but they are hard to count, and I know there are 29 for sure. She was loaded with eggs, and I know they all came from her. She released then over the course of about four days. I am pretty sure that they hatched and she held them for a while before releasing them. I have a good loupe and was able to see what looked like hatched babies tucked up in her pleopods.
Very cool.

[Mustafa]

Oh wow...that's a LOT of larvae! Awesome!